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Two Koreas' mountain photos

By Korea Herald

Published : Feb. 14, 2012 - 11:52

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A boy drives a cart through a field near the Baekdu Daegan trail in North Korea. (Roger Shepherd) A boy drives a cart through a field near the Baekdu Daegan trail in North Korea. (Roger Shepherd)
Roger Shepherd, founder of HikeKorea.com, will be exhibiting photos taken while he hiked the Baekdu-Daegan range in both South and North Korea from this week.

Shepherd is the co-author of “Baekdu Daegan Trail: Hiking Korea’s Mountain Spine,” published in 2010, and has been documenting the range for six years.

He took a major step toward the goal of documenting the entire peninsula-spanning range when he visited the North’s portion of the range in late October-early November.

This exhibit, lasting until Feb. 22, will display 70 images that Shepherd has captured on both sides of the DMZ. Twenty-five of these images will later travel to Shepherd’s native New Zealand for an exhibit there.

The exhibition is sponsored by the Korea Forest Service and starts Friday at 3 p.m. at the Gyeongbokgung Station Gallery in Seoul. Admission is free. Gyeongbokgung Station is on Line 3.

(rjamesyork@heraldcorp.com)